The flaw in that thinking on Pelosi is few people really care who the Congressional leaders are, they don’t even know who they are. Even still, while she did rise to Speaker because the GOP became unpopular at the end of Bush’s Presidency, she became an albatross around the necks of democrats in GOP-leaning districts, almost of all whom have been defeated since then. Don’t forget, the democrats are at an 85 year low point in the House. And really since the groupthink in the democrat party is so strong, there is hardly any ideological difference between any of their top people. Steny Hoyer would be just as bad as Pelsoi.
This guy Corybn appears to me to be a non-viable candidate for Prime Minister, and that’s great news. Imagine if Barbara Lee was nominated by the democrats for President, it would mean a Republican landslide. It’s always best that opposition picks the worst candidates possible, to minimize the chance of them winning.
I see a 5% chance of a lunatic like Corybn gaining power as much better than a 45% chance of more mainstream Labour scumbag (who would do the majority of the nasty things Corybn would do) gaining power. Risk/reward.
Even if he were to win, his polices would almost guarantee failure and a reversal in the next election.
Can you try to explain how this came about?
Who voted for him? Was it within the liberal Labor parliament members who selected him? If so, with the landslide win, didn’t they see this as future suicide or are they trying to send a message to someone in the leadership of the Labor party?
Whether people care who the Speaker is or not (they don’t), it is a powerful position that has influence in the direction we travel. It is almost worse that people don’t care. They should have cared. It is not JUST Pelosi or even mostly Pelosi to blame for our march leftward. My point is that it did not do what pundits claimed. It did not expose the left as a bunch of radicals that the public would reject. It marketed radicalism to the public and they bought it. IF they had been paying attention and cared, it could have peen stopped each place it cropped up, including the position of Speaker of the House.